JPEG to TIFF Converter

What happens when you convert JPEG to TIFF

• The image is decoded and written as an uncompressed RGBA TIFF.
• TIFF is lossless, so no further detail is lost, but it cannot restore detail the JPEG compression already removed. Expect a larger file.

How to convert JPEG to TIFF online

1. Press "Choose JPEG files" and select one or more files, or drag them onto the box. You can add files of any size your device can hold in memory.
2. Adjust the settings if you need to. The output is lossless, so there is no quality setting to worry about.
3. Press "Convert to TIFF". Images convert in a second or two each.
4. Save each TIFF with its download button. Close the tab and every trace of the files is gone from memory.

Why convert JPEG to TIFF?

JPEG files usually come from camera photos, scanned documents and web images. People convert them to TIFF because TIFF is the format printers, scanners and archives trust for lossless images.

In short, JPEG is good at what it was made for, and TIFF is the more practical choice when the file has to open, upload or print somewhere else. JPEG opens in every browser and image viewer, while Safari shows TIFF; Chrome, Edge and Firefox download it instead of displaying it.

How to convert JPEG to TIFF on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android

On Windows

Open this page in Chrome, Edge or Firefox, drag your JPEG files in from File Explorer, and press Convert. Each TIFF is saved to your Downloads folder. Paint can also re-save an image as TIFF with Save as, provided Windows can open the JPEG in the first place.

On a Mac

Safari, Chrome and Firefox all work. Drag the JPEG files from Finder onto the drop zone and the TIFF files land in Downloads. Preview can do single images too: open the file, choose File, then Export, and pick TIFF.

On iPhone and iPad

Open the page in Safari and tap Choose JPEG files. You can pick from Photos or from the Files app. The converted TIFF appears in Files, in the Downloads folder; to put it in your photo library, open it there, tap Share and choose Save Image.

On Android

Open the page in Chrome, tap Choose JPEG files and pick them from Files or your gallery. The TIFF is saved to the Download folder, where any file manager can find it.

Best settings for JPEG to TIFF

The TIFF is written uncompressed with an alpha channel, four bytes per pixel, which every TIFF reader can open. A 12 megapixel image is about 48 MB. That is normal for print and archive work, where no loss is the point.

JPEG vs TIFF: the differences

About JPEG and TIFF files

What is a JPEG file?

JPEG and JPG are the same format. The three-letter extension dates from old Windows systems that only allowed three characters after the dot, and both names are still in use.

What is a TIFF file?

TIFF is the format printers and archives trust because it can store uncompressed or losslessly compressed pixels, CMYK colour and several pages in one file. It is also why a single scan can run to 100 MB.

JPEG to TIFF not working? Common problems

• Colours look slightly different. Browsers convert images to the standard sRGB colour space when they decode them, so wide-gamut and CMYK images can shift a little.
• A phone photo comes out upright even though it looked sideways elsewhere. That is correct: the rotation stored in the photo is applied during conversion, so the TIFF is always the right way up.
• The file is bigger than expected. The TIFF is usually larger, because it stores every pixel without compression losses, while the JPEG was compressed lossily.

Convert JPEG to TIFF from the command line

If you work in a terminal, ImageMagick converts JPEG to TIFF in one line:

magick input.jpeg output.tiff

To convert every JPEG in a folder at once, use magick mogrify -format tiff *.jpeg. The converter on this page does the same job without installing anything.